Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *anôScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_anô
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Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 8)HrachMartirosyanBrill2010Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7)Michielde VaanBrill2008Kin, clan and community in Proto-Indo-European societyBirgit AnetteOlsenBenedicte Nielsen WhiteheadBirgit Anette OlsenJanus Bahs JacquetKin, clan and community in Indo-European societyCopenhagenMuseum Tusculanum Press39–1802020Kinship terms in the Anatolian languagesMatildeSerangeliBenedicte Nielsen WhiteheadBirgit Anette OlsenJanus Bahs JacquetKin, clan and community in Indo-European societyCopenhagenMuseum Tusculanum Press181–2182020𒄩𒀭𒈾grandmotheranusold womananeold motherἀννίςmother’s or father’s mother; grandmotherհանgrandmotheranýtahusband’s motheranoforefatheranagrandmother
nounmasculinean-stem(male) ancestor; forefatherProbably a masculine an-stem formed from the same inherited kinship base that underlies the widespread Indo-European ‘grandmother’ set. Serangeli 2020: 208–209 reconstructs the inherited formation as *h₂énH-o-, taking the geminate of Hittite 𒄩𒀭𒈾 as evidence for *-nH-, whereas Olsen 2020: 81–82 prefers the less committal stem *h₂an(h)- and notes that the gemination could instead be hypocoristic and that even initial *h₂ is not entirely secure. Cognates of the underlying kinship family include Hittite 𒄩𒀭𒈾, Ancient Greek ἀννίς, Armenian հան, Latin anus, Old Prussian ane, and Lithuanian anýtade Vaan 2008: 45, s.v. anusMartirosyan 2010: 388, s.v. hanOlsen 2020: 81–82Serangeli 2020: 208–209. Crucially, only Germanic securely attests a masculine member of this set, Old High German ano, beside ana, so the specifically male meaning should not be projected back to Proto-Indo-European.